blady grass

British  

/ ˈbleɪdɪ /

noun

1. a coarse leafy Australasian grass, Imperata cylindrica

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Example Sentences

We followed a foot-path of the natives, who seemed very numerous, which led towards another range west by south; and crossed several tea-tree creeks, Pandanus groves, and swamps full of a high blady grass.

From Journal of an Overland Expedition in Australia : from Moreton Bay to Port Essington, a distance of upwards of 3000 miles, during the years 1844-1845 by Leichhardt, Ludwig

The hapless fly is impaled with an inch or two of the flowering spike of blady grass to which a portion of the white inflorescence adheres, and is released.

From My Tropic Isle by Banfield, E. J. (Edmund James)

Darts are also improvised from blady grass by two other methods, each a prototype of the spear and wommera.

From My Tropic Isle by Banfield, E. J. (Edmund James)

A few handfuls of blady grass supply a sheaf of missiles, and with such cheap ammunition the sportsman is justified in providing himself profusely when intent upon the destruction of shy birds.

From My Tropic Isle by Banfield, E. J. (Edmund James)

The sound again—merely the mellow cadences of a swamp pheasant whooping among the blady grass.

From Tropic Days by Banfield, E. J. (Edmund James)